Well, we've passed the 2 a.m. update, and Ike has officially come onto Texas. As I'm gathering information, I have KFDM's streaming webcast going and I'm having a great time listening to the e-mails they are getting in from people who stayed behind.
And I still can't believe they actually stayed behind.
Because looking at the radar and watching the tide date on my computer, the water levels are getting near 14 feet above normal, with high tide still about an hour and a half away. It won't take much more to top the seawall at Port Arthur. Maybe another five feet or so.
I just checked the Entergy website again. Yeah, much of Mid-County is now without power. If you want to check on your neighborhood, just go to Entergy-Texas.com and zoom in. It's actually pretty easy to get around that website...kudos to them for making it very user friendly.
I'll be up as long as I can, updating the website. Speaking of updating the website...how'd you like the promo for the blog on the rotating homepage picture? That's a real Ike photo, taken by our friends at the Associated Press down in Bacliff.
I don't know how set up the photo was...in instances like that, the photographer probably saw the guy holding himself up while showing off to his friends, then the photographer probably went and asked him to do it again.
A little secret of the trade sometimes necessary to get a point across.
O.K. I'm monitoring the radar right now on the web and Southeast Texas is receiving some pretty heavy wind and rain. I live in Groves, but this is the first time my home will be put to the street flooding test. All I can hope for is as little damage as possible before I can get back and get it cleaned up.
We have just over an hour and a half before the "peak" of this thing comes over, but this storm is so big the reports are saying that it will be another seven before it's all really over.
For now, I'm just gonna chill and get the updates. If I don't fall asleep, they'll be posted pretty timely. I shouldn't though...I have my mom's chocolate cake to keep me up.
Mike Tobias, Port Arthur News
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Any news on how high the water went? did it go over the levees?
hey, John...
you probably already know...I had fallen asleep at that point...I woke up a few hours later and I updated the blog saying no, the levees were not breached. i figured you probably aleady know that, but just in the one in a million case you didn't.
were you worried about your house? Where do you live? I'm going back in tomorrow and depending on where it is, I go by the area and see.
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